Steve Willard, poet and songster, survived a botched assassination attempt (no joke!) in January 2007, and is currently touring the west with his band, GO DUO.Currently finishing a doctorate in music composition at UC San Diego, Willard has performed with Duncan Sheik and Alvin Lucier, andbeen published in journals such as Denver Quarterly and Boston Review.of poems, Harm., is just out from University of California Press.Please join him and David Lau in celebrating the art of poetry and life in general.

David Lau comes from Long Beach and LA—after a stint in Iowa City, he now lives in Santa Cruz where he teaches at the University of California and CabrilloCollege.His poetry has been a finalist for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in Denver Quarterly, Volt, Boston Review and other magazines.He is currently making a documentary called Laborland about the transformation of California in the era of global trade.

Janet Holmes has published F2F (2006), Humanophone (2001), and The Green Tuxedo (1998), all from the University of Notre Dame Press, and The Physicist at the Mall (1994), winner of the Anhinga Prize. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in 1913, Cannibal, Cutbank, Notre Dame Review and Practice, New Writing + Art. She edits Ahsahta Press, a 32-year-old all-poetry press housed at BoiseStateUniversity that is home to poets Dan Beachy-Quick, Lisa Fishman, Graham Foust, Kate Greenstreet, Brian Henry, Aaron McCollough, Sandra Miller, and Susan Tichy, among many others.